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ozzadar
Participant
May 3, 2015

Linux Support

Hey there,

Just wondering if anyone has managed to get Oculus working with UE4 under linux. There's a 4.7 distro that enables the VR Preview mode but the publish option doesn't work due to some linking errors.

Has anyone gotten this working? If so, would he/she/they like to help me get it up and running?

Thanks,
Ozz
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    FictionX
    Participant
    May 5, 2015
    I don't think it's working yet, unfortunately:
    https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unrea ... vr-support (see comments)

    3dluvr did have a branch called 4.7-linux-ovr, but I don't think that one ever worked properly, either. It hasn't been updated for a month.
    haagch
    Up and Coming
    May 5, 2015
    From what I heard in some private messages:

    Amigo, the owner of the repo where UE for Linux is being developed, had success with getting video to render on the Rift.

    This is his branch: https://github.com/3dluvr/UnrealEngine/ ... -linux-ovr

    It requires building libovr.a and putting it into the correct directory before building the editor, if you build it there will be an error that shows where it's looking.

    There's a template to experiment: https://github.com/mitchemmc/UE4FirstPersonVRTemplate

    Epic has an employee designated for integrating community linux enhancements and (possibly?) the plan is to pull in the linux branch when they release 4.8 but it might also be based on when the launcher is complete (dependent on the CEF3 browser?). Once that's done a Windows developer should be able to export a Linux game with Oculus Rift support.


    That's at least in parts speculation, but I'll put it here for a lack of ANY actual information whatsoever from oculus nor epic.

    So far you can see:
    Unreal's 4.8 branch does not contain linux support for the oculus rift plugin: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngi ... ft.uplugin
    There is a chance the unity plugin will be released with the next sdk release: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=21712&start=60#p258877


    We can also forget steamvr for the time being:
    Their unity plugin is only for windows: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/32647
    Their unreal plugin is only for windows: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngi ... VR.uplugin
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